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That's true. I don't think, however, that player death is a requirement for a challenging fight. When a player dies the fight is obviously challenging(assuming they didn't do something stupid), but I think challenge exists without player death. Healing surges spent is a really good metric, I...

I think something to ponder is what the designers of 4th ed consider to be a challenging fight. I think the intent is for character death to be pretty rare, so I don't think character death is neccessarily a part of a challenging fight. I am quite sure encounter length has little to do what...

What does every attribute do in 4e? Give a defense bonus(Con does this) Give some skill bonuses(Con does this) Give access to some feats(Con does this) Give attack/damage bonuses to certain classes(Con does this) Con also gives extra hp and healing surges. Dex gives initiative bonus. Str gives...

Walking Wounded, Rogue 5, PHB There are actually a tonne of Wizard and Warlock powers that do this in heroic tier, but their range is only 10, so not useful for your specific situation. Flying artillery is a pretty hard type of monster to deal with, particularly at low levels. I'm not...

Swordmage. You attack with Int. You have a tonne of fire based powers(or you could simply use a flaming sword, or take the anarch of shyr paragon path to use it's stance to add fire to all your attacks). You're a defender, so you'll put infernal wrath to good use. Blood hunt is fantastic(as...

I haven't read most of this thread, so I don't know if this has been touched on yet or not. The problem with "challenging the players, not the character's stats" is that it basically boils down to convincing the DM to let you do something. If there's no stats/rules for something, it all comes...

I'm going to go against the trend and say that I'd MUCH rather have a bunch more powers designed for the existing "builds" than I would completely new builds. Hopefully the powers of the new builds will have some merit for the old builds as well. Other than that, I hope to see leather armor...

I'm curious about the High Forest Scout. What makes it better than the other archer pps in your view?

Characters that want to use a melee weapon will generally have proficiency for it from their class. Even if they don't get it from the class, they get a couple from the race. How many dwarves will want to use a melee weapon yet not have it from their class? And how many of them will benefit...

The feats don't do this job successfully without the superior weapon profs. Weapon focus is better.

I don't think that this happens very often in 4th edition at all. In Thunderwave you've got an at will close spell(close spells don't provoke Opportunity Attacks). Unless you're in a situation where you've got a monster in melee range and there's no way you can shift a square so that you won't...

That's funny, because it seems completely intentional to me.

Rangers at least have a way to bring down flyers(I imagine most ranged characters can do it some way or another). Once the flyer is down, the fighter should use his stickiness to prevent it from getting airborne again. Ranger powers that can be used to ground a flying foe(whether via knocking...

Looking at the numbers, even a reasonably optimized character only hits vs AC on an equal level foe about 50% of the time. Against an elite, solo, or higher level monster it can get much lower than that. I'd probably be pretty annoyed by the item too, unless I was an Elven deadly trickster or...

Has anybody mentioned the gogoplata choke yet? It's a jujitsu manuever that probably hundreds of mixed martial artists know, yet only 3 mma fights have ended by it(last I looked into it at least). People rarely try the manuever, because the required positioning for it comes up extremely rarely.

Wait a minute. How is the DM supposed to win if they have to give out appropriate items the players will use? I thought everybody knew the sign of a skilled DM is giving out useless magic items that nobody wants. Next thing you know, WotC will be telling me I shouldn't be looking for ways to...

That's a mighty tasty looking worm you've got there, but what's up with the gigantic hook in it?

I bought myself a 2nd edition phb when I was about 12 years old. I read it, and figured out how to play on my own(eg, making characters, running sample encounters). I started dming my cousin(we actually alternated the dm position) about a year later. I joined my first experienced group of...

The scimitar dance feat has wonderful effects on your average damage per round, assuming you have a good dex. If you max your dex, I believe no single feat increases your average damage per round more than scimitar dance(or it's hammer equivilent). Halfling melees will have to build a bit...

Not to mention the flavor aspect. I'd rather be Conan than Merlin, yet I've never played a pure classed fighter type for more than 3 sessions in any edition of D&D. Why? Because they were so mechanically boring(with the exception of Book of 9 Swords classes, which I never got to play). In...